 What's up guys, Joe Holland here. I'm gonna show you how to build a window jack for your pop-up hub style tent, or any tent really, so you could run a wood stove, propane heater, any kind of outlet, or chimney through your window, your existing windows that you already have. You don't wanna cut your tent. That's what I didn't wanna do, so Donnie showed me how to build one of these, and I'm gonna show you guys how to build another one this year. Very minimal tools, and very minimal labor, and money into this. I think $10 for the sheet of metal, and you could build two out of that. The boot is the price range, and you can go anywhere from 10 to $40 on the boot, depending on high temp, stainless steel, how far you wanna go on that, and I'm not even 100% sure you need a boot for that. You could probably just cut a hole in this tent, and leave a little space in, or put some weld and blanket around it. But if you wanna build a nice, snazzy, neat looking one like this, I'll show you how in less than 20 minutes. Okay, guys, I'm gonna show you how to make a window jack out of metal for your Eskimo Ice Shacks. Donnie built one of these last year out of sheet metal and worked really well. I ended up giving that one away, so I gotta make another one. So quick trip to Lowe's, just to get a piece out of 10 out of sheet metal. This sheet right here is 18 by 36. It's actually called like a joist liner if you have to work with one online or if you wanna look at it in shop. But it's a good size. I'll definitely get at least one, maybe two out of this. So the first thing you wanna do is pull your window out to get the right size. You're gonna have your longer run on the bottom here and a 90 degree angle here. So I'm gonna put that 90 degree angle right on the 90 degree angle of my sheet metal, which is gonna save me two cuts, like so. So the window was packaged all year, so it needs to be stretched out. So what I'm gonna do is pull it, stretch it out to right there. And I'm gonna put a mark with my marker right there. I can't really trace it right now because as you can see, the windows make it a tona form. But what I can do is I can put it flat and stretch it out. And then I can do that. And the same goes for this one. There, so I have all my angles at least traced out from my window and you wanna match the same size. And then you can take a straight edge and just finish up your lines. So there you have it right there. You can probably get another one out of this side too if I want. Might not be a bad idea to have two or have one for buddy. Yeah, you could definitely get two out of one sheet if you need to or you wanna make one for a friend. All right, we gotta pair a straight cut in shears. Let's see how it handles this metal. Put a little bit of bend to it with your other hand and it should cut pretty easy. There's a lot of different ways you can cut this, but with a good pair of shears, it cuts just like you'd be cutting with a pair of scissors through cardboard. And I'm gonna go all the way through and then I just got that last angle right there to deal with. So there's your window right there, pretty much same size. And it's gonna need some Velcro on it and you're gonna need your pass through. So this is my pass through here. You could use any different type of ones. This one's a high heat one. So it'll be really good for a wood stove. I'm not using a wood stove in this case, but it would be great for a wood stove if I was using it. So a lot of bolts, a lot of screws nuts and bolts and washers and everything for this one. It's a little bit overkill. We might leave a couple out and just have open holes for ventilation. But the cool part about this is it's reversible. So if you don't like how you have it set up in your tent, you can put it on the other side and use a different window because there are left hand and right hand windows in your Eskimo tent. I'm just gonna use this to trace it. I just wanna make sure, yep. So we wanna be kind of centered up, down and around. And I'm gonna trace out the inside hole. So we want it at least that big, not a lot bigger cause you want your screws. You're gonna want your screw holes in there too. And while you're there, you can draw those in. I'm gonna have to push very hard. And then I'm gonna cut out the center with a jig saw. So I'm gonna give myself a pilot hole to get started there. And I'm gonna use a little bit bigger bit for that one, give myself a little bit more room. So I'll probably end up switching these to wing nuts when I get some just to make this more adjustable in the field. But for right now, I'll just use the ones that came with this kit. A friend of mine sent me this kit. I think you could buy it on Amazon. The orange is like the high heat. So if you're using a wood stove, you wanna get the orange one. We used a black one last year, the black rubber boot and it did melt. It still did its job, but it did melt from the high heat. And as you guys can see, I forgot to put on my inside ring, my outside ring. Not 100% necessary, but might as well put it on, right? It'll stiffen this up a little bit too. Who caught that at home? All right, there you have it. Now this is adjustable for whatever size pipe that you're gonna put through. I'm gonna put a three inch through. So I'm gonna end up cutting this probably back in here. And I'm gonna be coming through at an angle as well. So I think I'm coming through with this piece right here. So yeah, I'm gonna wanna cut this ring way back into this bend right here. And if you cut it a little too big, it just means you're gonna have some air flow, which isn't the worst thing either. So you can just use your knife. It's pretty soft rubber. I don't even mind that that's not the best cut because I don't mind a little bit of air coming in. But we'll try that out. There you have it. And then that's gonna come through heat source in here. Out here is gonna be your exhaust. And then two more things we gotta do. One, we gotta put the Velcro on. And then the other thing, if you have like a belt rinder or sand, or sandpaper or something, you can go ahead and smooth out these edges so they don't cut you while you're out on the ice. You know, these corners are really sharp. So I'm gonna hit that on my belt grinder. So last but not least is you're gonna wanna get your Velcro on there. This is sticky side Velcro. So the metal's nice and clean, so it should stick right to it nicely. And you wanna match it up with your male or female side that you have here. So we're gonna use, it looks like, okay, it looks like it's the rougher side. I'm gonna peel out my rougher side and just stick it directly to your metal. You can use scissors or a knife, scissors right here. Yep, that's good. If you're using old metal, just make sure it's cleaned off so your tape sticks to it. This stuff sticks pretty well. We didn't have any problem with ours last year. There you go, there you have it. So that's one sided now. And if you want it reversible, you know, like for left-hand or right-hand windows, you can go ahead and put some of the Velcro on the other side too. And then like I said, I'm gonna change these out when I get some wing nuts. And then that replaces that. So when you're out there camping, you just pull your glass window out of your tent and then put this in. And then when you're not using it, obviously you put this one back. So there it is guys, pretty easy, super easy build. Just remember to take it out before you collapse your tent. But there's your window jack for your Eskimo. I did mine two-sided so you can go on either way. You could change this around if you put wing nuts instead of regular nuts. You could change this super easy. Just throw like all you need is two wing nuts on that thing. And you could swap it around to reverse directions if you want this pointed out. Or you could probably get away with just running it backwards. But there you go. That's gonna save your tent and your exhaust and then be able to camp now with a little bit better heat source than maybe you were running before.